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Tuesday, May 26, 2015
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Tabanan now has a museum of ceramic art TABANAN - Pejaten village is not only famous for manufacturing earthenware but they have also developed ceramic craft products, which could very well be highlighted as a tourist attraction. Pejaten village is in fact well on its way to becoming a tourism village. To achieve this objective, the village has built a museum of ceramic art with a collection of hundreds of artificial ceramic items made by local artisans as well as heritage ceramics from the nineteenth century. It is expected to become a tourist destinations for travelers visiting Pejaten village.
According to the Operations Manager of the Museum, I Putu Oka Mahendra, the museum of ceramic art has hundreds of pieces in its collection that has been amassed since 2011. The museum also shows the historical development of ceramics in Pejaten village. Mahendra explained that initially the development of ceramics at Pejaten village began with the manufacture of pottery and roof tiles used in bartering for agricultural commodities with other regions because Pejaten village was arid and barren. “In the 1960s the manufacture of pottery here still used traditional techniques. Then, in 1980 there was assistance from the Dutch government in teaching new manufacturing techniques that allowed the craft to evolve,” said Mahendra. He explained that after learning from the Dutch government 15 different groups of craftsmen at Pejaten village began to produce
ceramics with a layer of glass or glaze. The development of ceramics at Pejaten is divided into several decades starting in the 1960s. Each period shows differences in forms, motifs, and levels of difficulty in the creation process. Aside from collecting contemporary ceramic from Tabanan, the museum also has a collection of ceramic tiles estimated to be more than a thousand years old and originate from northern Thailand, specifically, 9th century Sawankhalok “We obtained this collection from fishermen on the coast of West Java. The ceramics no longer have their glaze as they were buried in the sand for so long,” said Oka. He also explained that a team from the Indonesia Institute of the Arts (ISI) Denpasar investigated and found that the ceramics that were found on the coast of West Java in fact have the characteristic traits of ceramics from Sawankhalok. (kmb24)
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John Nash: A life of great struggle and even greater success TRENTON, N.J. — Born to an electrical engineer, and later a precocious and dashing young man who attained an Ivy League education, John Nash seemed destined for a life of stunning success. That he achieved, winning a Nobel Prize in 1994, but not without a struggle with mental illness that would make him a household name even more so than his achievements in mathematics.
The Vice Regent of Tabanan, Sanjaya visited the ceramic museum
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On highway operation, three contraband puppies secured
The joint operation held by Jembrana Police
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NEGARA - Three puppies smuggled were secured by the ranks of Jembrana Police when making a highway operation on Jalan Sudirman, Denpasar-Gilimanuk, Saturday night (May 23). Aside from contraband animals, the operation led by the Deputy Chief of Jembrana Police, Anak Agung Rai Laba, also found a car without vehicle registration and toy gun. The operation held before the dawn was actually targeting drugs in anticipating the entry of drugs smuggled to Bali through land line. But from the operation involving at least 70 police officers from the Jembrana Police and Negara Police found 20 traffic violations. Of the many trucks inspected, the officers found a truck with destination to Flores transporting three puppies without official documents. From the description of the driver, Benyamin Bato, 43, from Flores, the truck with license plate L 9837 UP delivered puppies from Surabaya to Flores with a cost of IDR 1 million.
Recipient of the puppy delivery is on behalf of Fiki with the address at Trikora village, Bajawa subdistrict, Ngada, East Nusa Tenggara. Since having no document from the Agricultural Quarantine, the three puppies belonging to Hasky type were secured by police. The puppies placed in small cage were estimated to be two months old. “We have also secured a unit of Mercedes with license plate L 1207 DW without registration document and a toy pistol,” said Deputy Chief of Jembrana Police to reporters. The sedan without vehicle registration document brought a land pass, but it is only valid in the area of East Java. According to him, it poses a regular operation to maintain the security of Bali including the anticipation against drug trafficking. In addition to such joint operation, the highway operation is also held regularly at each police station across the subdistrict police in Jembrana to back up the examination at Gilimanuk. (kmb26)
Nash had read the classic “Men of Mathematics” by E.T. Bell by the time he was in high school. He planned to follow in his father’s footsteps and studied for three years at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh — now Carnegie Mellon University — but instead followed his passion for math. He then went to Princeton, where he worked on his equilibrium theory and, in 1950, received his doctorate with a dissertation on non-cooperative games. The thesis contained the definition and properties of what would later be called the Nash equilibrium. But it was while teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1959, when his wife, Alicia, was pregnant with their son, that schizophrenia began to emerge, a yearslong fight that was chronicled in the Academy Award-winning blockbuster “A Beautiful Mind.” The Nashes died in a car accident late Saturday on the New Jersey Turnpike. He was 86; she was 82. “John’s remarkable achievements inspired generations of mathematicians, economists and scientists who were influenced by his brilliant, groundbreaking work in game theory, and the story of his life with Alicia moved millions of readers and moviegoers who marveled at their courage in the face of daunting challenges,” Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber said in a statement.
In an autobiography written for The Nobel Foundation website, Nash said delusions caused him to resign as a faculty member at MIT. He also spent several months in New Jersey hospitals on an involuntary basis. However, Nash’s schizophrenia diminished through the 1970s and 1980s as he “gradually began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking,” he wrote. 2001’s “A Beautiful Mind” was based on an unauthorized biography by Sylvia Nasar, who wrote that Nash’s contemporaries found him “immensely strange” and “slightly cold, a bit superior, somewhat secretive.” Much of his demeanor likely stemmed from mental illness. “A Beautiful Mind” won four Academy Awards, including best picture and best director, and generated interest in John Nash’s life story. Russell Crowe, who was nominated for best actor for playing Nash, tweeted that he was “stunned” by news of the couple’s death. “An amazing partnership,” he wrote. “Beautiful minds, beautiful hearts.” Jennifer Connelly, who won the Oscar for best supporting actress for her portrayal of Alicia Nash, called the couple “an inspiration,” and the film’s director, Ron Howard, tweeted that “it was an honor telling part of their story.” The Nashes split in 1963 then resumed living together several years later and finally remarried in 2001.
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FILE - In this Oct. 11, 1994 file photo, Princeton University professor John Nash speaks during a news conference at the school in Princeton, N.J., after being named the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for economics. Nash, whose struggle with schizophrenia was chronicled in the 2001 movie “A Beautiful Mind,” died in a car crash along with his wife in New Jersey on Saturday, May 23, 2015, police said.
John Nash held a research post at Brandeis University before eventually returning to Princeton. Known as brilliant and eccentric, he was associated with Princeton for many years, most recently serving as a senior research mathematician. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his work in game theory, which offered insight into the dynamics of human rivalry. It
is considered one of the most influential ideas of the 20th century. Just days before his death, Nash received a prize from the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters in Oslo with New York University mathematician Louis Nirenberg, who called Nash a truly great mathematician and “a kind of genius.” Nirenberg said he had chatted
with the Nashes for an hour at the airport in Newark, New Jersey before they’d gotten into a taxi to return home to Princeton Township. New Jersey State Police say the Nashes were thrown out of the taxi when it crashed around 4:30 p.m. Saturday in Monroe Township, about 12 miles from their home. The cab driver was hospitalized. (ap)
North Ireland leader hospitalized over suspected heart attack
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FILE- In this file photo dated Thursday, May 7, 2015, Northern Ireland First Minister and leader of the Democratic Unionist Party Peter Robinson gives the thumbs up to waiting media after casting his vote in the General Election in East Belfast, Northern Ireland.
DUBLIN — First Minister Peter Robinson, the Protestant leader of Northern Ireland’s unity government, has been hospitalized after a suspected heart attack, his party said Monday. The 66-yearold leader of the Democratic Unionist Party was taken by ambulance to the Ulster Hospital east of Belfast near his home, then transferred to the cardiac specialist unit at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Catholic west Belfast. The Royal Victoria Hospital said in a statement that Robinson “underwent a procedure this morning and is currently recovering.” It declined to elaborate. The Democratic Unionist Party, which represents the British territory’s Protestant majority, asked media not to contact Robinson’s
family. Robinson has led Northern Ireland’s five-party government since 2008. Long a fierce critic of the outlawed Irish Republican Army and its allied Sinn Fein party, Robinson has defied expectations and worked with Irish Catholic colleagues — particularly former IRA commander Martin McGuinness, the Sinn Fein official who is co-leader of the government. Deputy First Minister McGuinness said in a tweet he was concerned about Robinson’s hospitalization. “My thoughts and prayers are with him, (wife) Iris and family,” he wrote. In London, Prime Minister David Cameron also tweeted that he hopes Robinson “has a speedy recovery.” (ap)